The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-08-23
Collapse of the Cattle Baron Syst.

The COLLAPSE of the cattle baron
system in Wyoming is not checking the
progress of railroad building there, al
though all the roads have announced
that their prime object is to secure
cattle shipments. The railway mag
mates know full well that the downfall
of the range owners, far from decreas-
ing. will soon result in an increase of
the live stock product Of the Territory.
The ownership of the cattle will be
transferred to thousands of farmers,
who will cultivate the land along the
streams and provide winter feed for
their small herds.
Track on the Cheyenne and Northern
has just been completed from Chug-
water, the winter terminus, distance
of thirty-one miles to the Laramie
River, at IVA Postofice, which is 101
miles north of Cheyenne. AS soon as
the bridge across the Laramie River is
finished, which will be within week,
the completed grade to the North
Platte, at the mouth of Cotton
wood Creek. This is all the extern.
sion at present provided Tor on the
Cheyenne & Northern, and will COM
plete the 125 miles required by the con
tract under which the county in which
Cheyenne is situated voted $i00, 900
bonds to the Union Pacific.
Unfortunately for both the Union
Pacific and Cheyenne this ends the road
at Point which is commercially no.
where 1t Is in rugged canyon forty
miles southeast of Douglas and thirty
miles southwest of Lusk, to important
cattle-shipping points on the North
western Wyoming Central line. Chey.
enne is clamoring for an immediate
further extension of twenty five miles
TO point on the Wyoming Central at
the mouth Of Shawnee Creek, and Den
yer, which is also interested, may well
join in the demand. The Union Pacific
can obtain none of the vast cattle ship
ments from north of the Wyoming
Central until it taps the latter at some
point.
The Chicago & Northwestern, or
Wyoming Central, which has rested at
Douglas, the new town at Fort Fetter-
man, for year, has commenced to lay
track westward up the North Platte to
Fort Casper, distance of sixty miles.
1t is making great preparations to con-
tinue its line westward clear through
Wyoming next season, while it will
push 1IS OIcSOu cuu eaSLWdIu Win
equal vigor to meeting point in Idaho.
The Burlington is entering Wyoming
at three points: First, at Cheyenne,
with spur from Southern Nebraska,
which will be completed in less than
two months; second, with its main line
from Broken Bow, in Northern Ne
braska, to Fort Laramie, on the North
Platte; third, with a branch from
the latter in Nebraska, which pushes
northWard to the. Black Hills aud
sends spur into Northwestern Wyo-
ming. The latter has as yet only been
located. On the line to Fort Laramie
grading is in progress and right of waV
to the fort has been secured. Whether
its course west of Fort Laramie will be |
up the Laramie River and across the |
Laramie Plains, or up the North Platte |
through Douglas, is a point as yet IN
decided by the engineers. Both routes |
have been surveyed. This is believed to |
be the BurliDgton's main line to CALI |
fornia in case the route across the !
from Denver is not adopted. |
Wyoming is as a matter OF fact but |
little behind Colorado in actual railroad |
building, while her prospects for an
enormous amount of construction next |
year are very fattering. What is Den |
YER going to do about securing trade |
relations with this growing Territory? |
Do our people know that our trade eI-
tends northward only to Greedy? Only |
fifty miles ?-DenYer Republican,,